Railway-car



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RAILWAY CAR. l

' Patented Sept. 29, 1885.-

' Nits haar@ PATENT HARRISON LORNG AND LUTHER K. JEYETT, OF BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Pt'nt No. 327,093, da-ted'sepmber29, 1885.

i Application filed November Z-l, i884. (No model.) l

T all whom 15 may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRISON LORING and LUTHER K. J EWETT, ot' Boston,county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, haveinvented an Improvementih .liailwayCars of which the following description, in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specitication, like letters on thedrawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to that class of car employed forwreeking-andrailway construction, a crane'being employed thereon, the inf ver'itionbeing an improvement on thatvdescribed in United Sta-tes Letters louentNo.

,i 252,672fdateddanuary 24, 1882.

.eo sion of the mast and its attached boom, and

also to provide means for locking the mastsupporting or turn table inposition.'

Figure l is a side elevation oa sufficient portion ot' a railway-car ofthe class referred to to enable our inventionto be understood;

Figs. 2 and 3, enlarged details, respectively, of the anchor and kevelemployed when raisingand lowering,` the mast and its connected boom.Fig'. 4 is a section of Fig. l in the dot- 3o ted line' af x, the mastbeing, however, elevated.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of Fig. et in the dotted line a" a".Fig. 6 is a partial plan ot the trunnion ring or plate and thedisksecured to the mast at the under side of the 35 turn-table51and Fig. 7is a sectionaldetail of the jaeklscrew and foot used at the side of theoar and adaptedto bear upon an embankment. a

The' car-body A, its trucks, the trnnnion 4o ring or platea, theturntable d, its attached mast b, and the boom bf are and maybe allsubstantially as in the said patent, to which reference may be had, thesaid turn-table and trunnion ring:r or plate, in practice, havinginterposed between them ring provided with anti-friction wheels, asinthesaid patents. n

The car-body at one sidev has pivoted upon it wings B B', one of whichin Fig. il is shown as closed against the side of the car, while 5o theother wing is`shown as turned outward.

These wings or side supports each have suit able jack-screws, l?, whichmay be turned to place their lower ends against suitable blocks orrests, B, with sufficient vforce tov sustain the car-body directly from'the ground, or on suitable timbers, B4, thereon. -Iu Figs. 4 and l 5thejack-,screws of the wings B are supposed tobe forced downward incontactv with the block with suicient torce to constitute a 4sidesupport for the body of the car outside the track, th Lis-greatlyincreasing the work,- ing base ot the car. XVheu the caris running onthe track,these wings are closed,fas represented by'one of the wings, B,in Fig. l, the .jai-.k-screw being elevatedl'rom contact withtheroad-bed. 'These wings and their jack- ,screws may be applied to bothsides of the car-body. At times, when a wreck occurs on a portion ot'the track laid upouhan elevated p road-bed having embankmcnts atcachsido,

we find it of great import-ance to have a side support which may bereadily sustained upon the inclined eml'iankment. practicable'we haveprovided` the metallic tru union box or bearing Cl with a scattbest'Ashown in Figs. 4 and 7) to receive the end 2 To make this of the screwC, the co opera-ting` nut C* ot' which is located in a shell or base, C,having at one side, near its lower end, a stud, 4, (sce Fig. 7,) whichis -made to cuter a hole in`a foot piece or block, .5, adapted to reston the inclined face 6 ot' the embankment.- v

To sustain onecud of the jack-screw, composed of the screw C", nut C,and shell C5,

with the foot piece or block 5 in position on' the inclinedenibanknieneo -as to resist thev ircssure affainstit of the A'ack-screwwe cmv ploy suitable chains, 1), thatat their other ends are attached tosome ixed point which serves as an anchor. I )referahly the said chain-sDL are attached to the car-body at its oppostcside;l but instead the'said chains might be attached to some other suitable lixed body securedat the side ofthe track opposite the jack-screw referred to.

The turntable, mast, and their connected parts, in practice, weighupward of twenty tons, and hence are-somewhat dillic'ult to hanvdlc withsafety. llo raise and lower the mast we .have provided it with tworopes, Ef lill,

one of which is passed through the eye 8.0i'

the metallic anchor lll, see Fig. 2,) slotted or forked at its` base toembrace the rail F, a setscrew, 9, securing the anchor in place on thetrack. A'l`heo'ther vone of these two ropes is wrappeda'bont the kevelG, (see Fie.4

3,) also V.provided with a slot or spat-e 'to embrace the rail F,ajsct-screw, 10, confining the kevel in place. Themast willy be movedpositively by therope fE'lfand then be 'held in place, when desired,bythe rope E over the k evel.

In order lto retain the turntable d andinast` and trnnnioirring'andtheir intermediate and attached pa'rts in `proper relative .positionwhen the trnnnion-ring is to be turned to 'lowerorto raise the`n1ast,wehave `provided lsuitable locking devices, herein shown as catches, 13,pivoted uipon'the'trnnnion-ring a, and adapted by t-heir free ends toengage snit-- able `n'o'tchesor Vprojections-ot' the turn-tableorf'of'thedis'k or plate 14, connected therewith,

' asin Fig. 5.

"trnnnion ring Instead of the so-e'allcd ring-timbers shown in thepatentreferred to,'to keep the orplate in' horizontal position,

. Weil-laveprovidedthe'canbotly with trnnnionsaid plate.

.platefloekn'g devices, shown as pivoted bolts 16, having nuts 17 and'18, the said bolts betweer'tthe said nuls engaging slots in thetrunnion-plate, the said nuts by their adjustment preventing both theascent rand descent ol' the The bolt 16 has a broad base or head, and isvpivo'ted at one side ot' its center line` as sliowninFig. 5, and tallesa bearing l on the cross-:beam 19 of the rarbody lwhen the said bolt isin vertical position.

When the inast arrives nearly in vertical position, where it is to besecured by the en gageincntot the trnnnion-1 late.-locking de Vices Withthe trnnnion plate, seine one has to -forni the necessary connection,and to avoid accident, which might result in loss ot' lite by carelesslypermitting` the end ot' the trnnnionplate to descend too `l"a1-,\re haveprovided the car-body with n trunnion-plale slo[ ,20,th'e lat--jack-screw, the opposite endfof the chain being fixed with relation tothe ear-bodythe outer `lower endofv the said jack-screw taking.i1-bearing substantially as described, being on a foot or plate Otsidethe track, substantially as described:

v2. Theeanbodyand pivoted mast mounted "thereon and `provided withaltern-table, (l,

near its bottoni, combined with theyrope E?,

connected to said pivoted `mas'tat its top, and with vthe anchoradapt-ed to `be secured to the track independent ot' vand retrievedyfrom the ear, substantially as described.

3. The carbody anil trnnnionfplete, combined with the bolt 1G, pivot'ed`to the cari body and provided with the nuts 17 and 18,- arianeed tooperate sn bstanti al l y as described.

4.. The carbody and trunnion -plate, eonlf lbined with the pivotedtirunni'on-plate stop connected with the ear-body, substantially as 4described.

ln testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specificationin-the presence ot' two subscribing witnesses.

HARRISON LORING.

' LUTHER K. JEWET".

XVi t n (isses:

G. W.. innocui', B. J. Norris.

